Lack of box office does not necessarily equal “overlooked,” which was the point of my comment. It’s difficult to argue with the fact that the film has fallen off the radar despite having champions here and there. Though I realize Robert doesn’t miss a chance to dump on the movie this year. It’s not as bad as Speaking English’s obsession with “The Hurt Locker,” though. Not yet, anyway.

My crusade against Shutter Island is only going to last as long as this Oscar season. Once its success or failure to garner a Best Picture nomination happens, then you can rest assured that I will not go the Speaking English route of railing against a fait accompli.

Oh, and by the way, when you take every chance you get to proclaim the film as some sort of misunderstood masterpiece, I’m pretty sure I’m more than justified in saying that it sucks more than a few times.

Thanks so much for posting Guardian’s
Jim Sturgess interview.It’s great.And this sentences just make me smile.(“One Day” ‘s test screening was held recently.I heard he is excellent in it.I believe”One Day” will be his truly break film.)

“You need only look at what An Education did for an unknown Carey Mulligan to see where Jim Sturgess might be headed. In 2011 he stars
in the new film from Lone Scherfig, director of An Education. One Day is already being talked-up as a dead cert repeat of the award-magnet formula: adaptation of a smart, funny, much-loved Brit lit (in this case, David Nicholls’s novel), with a star-making turn by a box-fresh young English actor.”

Kris, either you simply don’t remember the laundry list of criticisms (of which I wasn’t alone) I’ve brought up against Shutter Island, or you’re being willfully dishonest with your condescending remark. Either way I can tell that there’s no way to have a mature or productive debate with you on this film.